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Secunia Advisory SA8856

ST FTP Service Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory

SA8856

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Release Date

2003-05-26

Popularity

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Criticality level

Moderately critical

Impact

Exposure of sensitive information

Where

From remote

Authentication level

Available in Customer Area

Report reliability

Available in Customer Area

Solution Status

Unpatched

Systems affected

Available in Customer Area

Approve distribution

Available in Customer Area

Remediation status

Secunia VIM

Software:

ST FTP Server 3.x

Secunia CVSS Score

Available in Customer Area

CVE Reference(s)

No CVE references.

Description

A directory traversal vulnerability has been identified in ST FTP Server. This allows malicious users to access any drive or directory, which the FTP server process got privileges to.

The problem is that the "cd" command e.g. takes "c:" as a valid argument.

Solution
Limit access so that only trusted user got access to the FTP service.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
D4rkGr3y

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ST FTP Service Directory Traversal Vulnerability

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